This qualitative phenomenological study fills a void in the existing research on school choice by including the University-Model® school to the literature. Through purposeful sampling, seven parents of students enrolled in grades 3rd-6th at a University-Model® school in the Nort…
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Purpose and Method of Study: Character education has been a priority in schools in the United States for four centuries. Researchers have studied the effectiveness of character education in public schools, but research in the religious private school is lacking. Many experts in …
The nation is embroiled within intense debate regarding the existence of monuments, markers, and online museums as vestiges of racism and White privilege. Many argue those symbols should be removed from the public square. The essential question of this research is what are socia…
The purpose of this study was to measure the level of knowledge (recall), understanding (ability to explain) and attitudes toward learning specified Bible doctrines in two treatment groups of elementary Korean children. Group one was taught using traditional (lecture- and discus…
For the past 50 years Earth Day has offered an annual opportunity for humanity to come together and focus on the planet. This dissertation celebrates this occasion by contributing four middle school lesson plans to the growing field of “ecozoic education.” Students are invited t…
With the declining of church attendance in generations younger than baby boomers, churches must shift their focus from maintenance to mission in order to avoid an existential threat. Reaching the younger generations will require a more personal approach than new programs and eve…
Rural places afford significant differences in learning opportunity than their urban and suburban counterparts, and are often viewed from deficit perspectives, with a focus on the challenges that are specific to rurality. This locally-focused, qualitative research explored how c…
The Kingdom Education Model was created to address a perceived gap in the literature. The purpose of this Delphi study was to determine if a panel of experts in the field of Kingdom Education could reach consensus that the Kingdom Education Model was ready to be tested for valid…
I begin the project with prefatory descriptions of Lewis’s uses of the terms education, learning, and vocational training. Then I consider the relationships between classical studies, English studies, and American Great Works programs, noting that American Great Works programs d…
Este proyecto fue desarrollado como una estrategia en la Iglesia Bautista Central de Oklahoma City, Oklahoma para entrenar a los hombres que son candidatos para ministerio en como estudiar e interpretar la Biblia para la predicación expositiva usandoun modelo simple que se puede…
The objective of this study is to show the importance of an effective leader training program for small church union. It has been shown that a small community church is a biblical and healthy church, as it is supported by church history as well as the Old and New Testaments. A 1…
The purpose of this project is to help those who minister to children develop a clear understanding of the culture of Generation Z children and adapt their teaching tools and methodologies in culturally relevant ways. Objectives of the twelve-week course included praying for Gen…
Excellence in education is based on a curriculum that is true, relevant, and appropriate, and on educational processes that are humane and democratic. A pervasive problem in U.S. schools is a curriculum that perpetuates cultural hegemony, lacks multiple perspectives, and adheres…
Though North Carolina is home to the 9th largest Indigenous population in America, as well as to the largest Tribe East of the Mississippi, North Carolina curriculum and schools often erode Indigenous histories from the classroom. Indigenous people are presented as forever const…
People with disabilities often face barriers to participation in religious communities. Due to the unique position of leaders in Christian communities, which are the religious majority in the United States, providing specific, disability-related training during their formal educ…
The problem addressed in this research is low performance of secondary mathematics students in U.S. Virginia public schools. State accreditation of Virginia schools is reliant on progress based on the four core subjects outlined in the Virginia Every Student Succeeds Act applica…
Inequity in healthcare has long been understood to be caused by individual and structural racism in the health system. Little progress has been made in diminishing the disparities that exist between Black and African American minoritized populations and the White majority. Cultu…
Disciplinary literacy is an approach to literacy in the content areas that helps students develop thinking and literacy skills that mimic experts in the field. The goal of this study was to explore the instructional practices of history teachers who have been nominated as exempl…
This qualitative instrumental multiple case study explores the beliefs of high school students’, parents’ and social studies teachers’ to better understand their perspectives surrounding the integration of controversial and sensitive photographic images into the high school soci…